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10/23/2006
This is why we are so excited by our alliance with Google. The Google alliance not only provides a vastly superior capability for our students; on the day we unwrapped the box it placed ASU on Google’s exponential technology development trajectory.
The range of technology solutions that Google is putting forward, at the speed and scale that they have proven they can deliver them, is sparking nothing short of a revolution in the IT business, completely changing the paradigm for how hardware/software solutions are created and delivered. Allying with Google gives ASU access not only to today’s innovative Google Apps suite – an order of magnitude better than what ASU could field on its own – but it also puts the university on a technology trajectory that is capable of keeping pace with the leaders in the field.
ASU’s new challenge – at least in this applications segment – switched overnight from the provisioning of e-mail, IM, and calendaring service to the intelligent integration of Google’s rapidly evolving collaboration and communications suite into the academic enterprise as fast as our legs can carry us.
We hope that Google Apps for Education is the tip of the iceberg and look forward to working with the Google Apps team – and other parts of the Google enterprise – to help us harness their unprecedented technology engine in the service of higher education.
Adrian Sannier is the University Technology Officer at Arizona State University. For more on this topic see Sannier’s blog or the Arizona State University Technology Office home page.
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